VAN
VAN
Van is between 38°29′39″ Northern Latitudes and 43°22′48″ Eastern Longitudes on Earth. On Turkey, it is in Lake Van closed basin in the part of Yukarı Murat-Van of the Eastern Anatolia Region. With its territories and its surface area which is 19.069 square km, the city consists of the 2,5% of overall Turkey territories. It is the 6th of the biggest cities of Turkey in terms of surface area. It has been settled down on a merely inclined land 5 km away from the east coast of Lake Van which is in the graben part covered with mountains of the Eastern Anatolia Region. Its altitude is nearly 1725 m. The biggest lake of Turkey, Lake Van is precipitation in the midst of the high mountains. The high mountains surrounding form the border of the city, Van.
Though the question where the name of Van comes from has not been clarified yet, some important opinions about the subject are:
Evliya Çelebi stated in his Seyahatname that The Great Alexander had given the name of the sanctuary called Vank in the Castle of Van to the city.
According to another tale, being a very old city, Van was named as Şahmerimekerd attributing to the name of Meshure Sah Meryem (Semiramis) who was Assyrian queen in 1900s B.C. Later, in the last period of Küyanya, because the governor named Van had beautified and enlarged the city, it was called as Van because of this governor.
The most reasonable and scientific opinion about the origin of the name of Van is that it comes from Urartian language Biane and Viane. Urartians named themselves as Bianian in all of the history sources. In the brightest period of Urartians, a lot of cities and communities had been gathered in Van region under the name of Biate.
Van is between 38°29′39″ Northern Latitudes and 43°22′48″ Eastern Longitudes on Earth. On Turkey, it is in Lake Van closed basin in the part of Yukarı Murat-Van of the Eastern Anatolia Region. With its territories and its surface area which is 19.069 square km, the city consists of the 2,5% of overall Turkey territories. It is the 6th of the biggest cities of Turkey in terms of surface area. It has been settled down on a merely inclined land 5 km away from the east coast of Lake Van which is in the graben part covered with mountains of the Eastern Anatolia Region. Its altitude is nearly 1725 m. The biggest lake of Turkey, Lake Van is precipitation in the midst of the high mountains. The high mountains surrounding form the border of the city, Van.
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Van has an important potential in terms of history, nature, culture and winter tourism like all of the other cities in the Eastern Anatolia Region. In addition, Van also has sea tourism potential, which means that with appropriate investments, various tourism activities can be organized here in four seasons.Though the question where the name of Van comes from has not been clarified yet, some important opinions about the subject are:
Evliya Çelebi stated in his Seyahatname that The Great Alexander had given the name of the sanctuary called Vank in the Castle of Van to the city.
According to another tale, being a very old city, Van was named as Şahmerimekerd attributing to the name of Meshure Sah Meryem (Semiramis) who was Assyrian queen in 1900s B.C. Later, in the last period of Küyanya, because the governor named Van had beautified and enlarged the city, it was called as Van because of this governor.
The most reasonable and scientific opinion about the origin of the name of Van is that it comes from Urartian language Biane and Viane. Urartians named themselves as Bianian in all of the history sources. In the brightest period of Urartians, a lot of cities and communities had been gathered in Van region under the name of Biate.